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Mike Dolce’s TUF 7 blog – Week 1

Mike Dolce is one of the middleweight contestants on “The Ultimate Fighter 7”. Mike will be sending me his a blog after every episode of this seasons “Ultimate Fighter”. Here is the first installment:

Imagine: You tell your boss to screw off, put everything you own in a 6×6 storage bin and leave your dog with your sister, â€œIâ€™ll see you guys in six weeks, Iâ€™m gonna be the next Ultimate Fighter!â€

In season 7 of Spike TVâ€™s â€œThe Ultimate Fighterâ€, the cast members had to fight their way into the house.

Me, I expected to fight as soon as I landed in Vegas. Some guys were clueless.

Question: Why would the producers mandate, for the first time ever, that the cast members weigh no more than five pounds over this seasonâ€™s class limit on the first day of filming?

Answer: Because you are fighting dumb ass!

Ready or not, youâ€™re still fighting in 48 hours and have 24 hours to make weight. So pick your balls back up off the floor and get to jogging because your whole life will totally change its course in the next two daysâ€¦or you could be going home with a broken arm.

The atmosphere was pretty charged up from that point on. You could tell who was in shape and who liked to fight just by the look in each guys eyes. There were some tough dudes here, a lot of tough dudes actually, and a couple of turds.

Making weight has never been a problem for me. I cut from 205 pounds to 170 pounds four times in 2007. A cut that big makes your soul bleed, trust me! Getting down to 185 is a walk in the park. I trained for eight weeks to show up here in the best shape of my life and it showed.

I only cut two pounds and even ate a light breakfast that morning. My weight was fine.

Some other guys like Steve Byrnes and John Clarke were over 200 pounds at Danaâ€™s now famous fight announcement and had a long night ahead of them. Lots of sits in the sauna and many miles will have to be jogged in their sweat suits. And though both guys eventually made their weight like true professionals, each looked the worse for wear stepping off the scale.

Fight day was sick!

Picture 32 wild animals all locked in the same cage circling, waiting to tear out each otherâ€™s jugulars. No pussy-cats here!

My opponent was Prince McLean. Prince is a 6â€™6â€ Rich Franklin / Jorge Gurgel trained fighter from the Midwest. Heâ€™s an all-state wrestler known for his exceptional kickboxing.

Prince and I became friendly in December â€™07 during the casting interview in Las Vegas. He and I were in the same van, along with Gerald Harris, Josh Hall, Tim Credeur, CB Dollaway, Pat Schultz and John Clarke. All good guysâ€¦then.

Todayâ€¦they are hurdles. Rungs in the ladder of my own success and I had no problem stepping on each one to get to the top. Except for Harris. Heâ€™s my boy! A teammate at Team Quest and a good friend. If we had to fight, and we would definitely throw down, we hoped it would be in the finals.

Stepping in the cage, I knew the fight was won. I could smell it.

About a minute and a half later, it was, by knockout!

Iâ€™m moving into the house and onto â€œThe Ultimate Fighter 7â€!

As the weeks go on, Iâ€™ll be able to give you more behind the scenes details. Just wait until we get into the house.

I love a guy who has confidence and a fierce mentality all of us are rooting for you mike in Louisville, Ky even though i think you might have a slight upper hand cause you have been fighting tough guys in the IFL but I welcome you to the big stage of the UFC cant wait till I see the rest of the series and see whats in store so please dont give us too much info on your blog. I really dont know everyone else story about where they came from and who they have fought but I do know you have the heart and will to take it to the finals and be the next Ultimate Fighter keep banging man. Good Luck remember you gots fans everywhere your fan David Baker…........

Awesome knock out Mike!! That fight I think is really going to help set the stage for this season’s TUF. I can not stop thinking however that you are writing this blog because you were one of the two best and are now awaiting the chance to be atop the TUF 7 crowd and the new fighter among the ranks of the UFC. Can’t wait to find out if my theory is true!

Mike looked good just hope he keep that confidence in all he do cause there will be hurdles and he will be tested pertaining to those other personalities in the house striving toward the same goal and the weidht of the top notch UFC thi is not the IFL!

Hey Mike, big fan of MMA & The UFC. Been watching the UFC since the 90’s when it started and been a fan of martial arts, wrestling, and boxing since birth. You’re definitely one of the guys I’ll be rooting for. I liked your mentality from what I saw on the first episode, you looked like a beast. It was nice when you knocked out that guy. Keep it up, train hard, stay sick, and bleed hate.

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Web programmer by day, practicing mixed martial artist at night, Larry Vollmer Jr. brings the latest news from the Ultimate Fighting Championship and the rest of the mixed martial arts world - a fast-spreading obsession on TV and online. These are the bouts - they occur in an octagon-shaped "ring" - that test men's souls.

Larry Vollmer Jr. is a Web programmer for LoHud.com, the Web site of The Journal News. He spends his days staring at thousands of lines of code and his nights throwing highkicks and hitting the mat with submission grappling specialists. After work and training, Larry gets the latest news on the world of mixed martial arts from the fighters themselves while watching and rewatching matches on his DVR. READ MORE